[Childhood sweethearts + cracking the reunion + chasing the wife in the crematorium + forced love + self-guided strategy]
Gu Yan and Lin Xiaoman grew up together in Wutong Lane. The sycamore tree with engraved words and wishes witnessed their friendship from childhood to adolescence, but the changes in the Gu family caused a rift.
After witnessing his mother's death, Gu Yan suffered from skin hunger syndrome and projected his desire for warmth on Lin Xiaoman. His pathological possessiveness quietly grew in adolescence.
The violence backstage at the school celebration tore off the pretense, Gu Yan exposed his twisted love with self-mutilation, and Lin Xiaoman's escape plunged the relationship into an abyss.
Reunited three years later, Gu Yan learned to face the pain in psychotherapy, rebuild trust in a clumsy but sincere way, and finally found the lost beauty in the buds of the sycamore tree.
